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Hot! Very Hot!

The temp reading on Sid's birthday weather station is 107 degrees. The temp reading on the porch, in the shade, is 100 degrees.

Through it all, Rick was working. YEOW!















Truss Day - First Installment

This will take some work to get the photos in logical order. This is just to whet your appetite.













Lots of Progress

Rick really worked his muscles today. He had to move the steel scaffold by himself, hammer up a level platform for it, and wrestle big flat boards in a brisk wind!




Roof to come soon!

Monday Morning in July

Yellow plums (all 5 of them on the tree) are getting ripe. I will eat them if they are ready before I leave on Saturday.




I walked the creek trail this morning, testing the GPS I bought. It took 40 minutes, but I can't figure out how to read whatever I was tracking on the GPS. In any event, this spot, where the new culvert was placed, looked particularly pretty.




The trusses get delivered on Thursday.








Thursday work in progress

Rick, finishing the framing.




This part was tricky!




Strange barrier. Don't think I'll tackle this one by myself.




This obstruction was no match for Diana, goddess of tree-trunk lifting.

User Error

Sigh! The failure to load was all me. Of course. Grrrrr.....

Weather sensor installed by Tory, Robert and Zak. I have had fun reading its output. Yesterday, the wind from the west had gusts of 15 mph!




Rick was out yesterday after the photos were shot. The roof things get delivered next week.








Fields nicely mowed.

July 8, 2015 Summer Day

I took photos when I arrived here yesterday evening, but I can't seem to get the blog to import them. Tried last night and again this morning - to no avail.



In any event, I got some mowing done yesterday evening, so the grounds in the orchard and around the house are mostly done.



The evening cooled down nicely. I actually needed a blanket by morning!